GuitarWorldmagazine turns 25 this year, and it's celebrating with an anniversary issue that is the literary equivalent of a screaming, shrieking guitar solo with the amp turned to 11 and enough feedback to make your ears bleed and the fillings fall out of your teeth.

GuitarWorld teaches guitar-playing by publishing elaborate note-by-note transcriptions of the guitar parts of many of the greatest songs in rock history.

Now that the 25th anniversary issue is out, GuitarWorld's staff is working on the next issue, a tribute to "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, the former guitarist for the heavy-metal band Pantera who was shot and killed by a crazed fan in Ohio last month while playing with his new band, Damageplan.

The 7th annual world air guitar championships have taken place in Oulu, Finland, proving you don't have to be able to play a note to be a worldrock star.

The art of air guitar is traced back to the 1960s when breathtaking electric guitar solos by bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin inspired teenagers throughout the world grab their tennis rackets and mime their idols.

For one, basic tracks were now being cut as a rock and roll three-piece, with plenty of sonic space for Buckingham, Fleetwood and John McVie to stake as their own.

His solo albums are more about meticulously crafted guitar overdubs, generally recorded direct and carefully manipulated via analogue tape varispeeding.

Vocal and guitar tracks zip back and forth across the stereo field like shuttlecocks in some aural badminton game.

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The guitar plays in 3/4 in the bass and in 6/8 in the treble in much of this piece.

If you are unfamiliar with this, it's also called playing "two against three." You might have to listen to the CD to get a feel for it, or you could learn it using the metronome.

The music is presented in both music notation and guitar TAB (for people that do not read music).

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GuitarWorld Acoustic brings you the best in acoustic guitarmusic six times each year.

This magazine is produced and published by the same company as Guitar One, GuitarWorld, and Bass Guitar, Future, Inc. My only real compalint is that this is a bimonthly magazine and it sells for more than Guitar One and GuitarWorld with are monthly.

I subscribe to a number of guitarmagazines - and of all - this one is the best - with the most tangible lessons and tabs for players.

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Air Guitars roared in Kuusisaari in Oulu for the ninth time — ideology of world peace will be spread for the next year by Miri "Sonyk-Rok" Park from the United States and Tarquin ”The Tarkness” Keys from New Zealand.

In Air Guitar playing all people are equal regardless of race, gender, age, social status or sexual orientation.

Air Guitar has been played for as long as electric guitars have wailed as the ultimate instrument of rockmusic and the guitar heroes of rock bands have been adored as idols.

Air Guitars roared in Oulu for the tenth time already - the world peace ideology of the air guitar will be spreaded for the next year by Michael "The Destroyer" Heffels from Holland.

Other judges evaluating the punishers of invisible guitar alongside Torvinen were Amanda Griffiths, who is making her Ph.D. at Salford University on Air Guitar playing, as well as Kotiteollisuus group frontman Jouni Hynynen and two organisers of national competitions: Magnus Langli from Norway and Nigal Agha from The United Arab Emirates.

The ideology of the Air GuitarWorld Championships is that all the bad things in the world would disappear if all people played the air guitar.